Exploring Language

"Exploring Language, 8th Edition, collects 84 selections in nine chapters to focus on some provocative aspects of American culture as they are revealed by language. Among the timely topics: the media and bias, computers and writing, black English, gender differences, "warspeak," advertising (as manipulation or art?), political double talk, and bilingualism."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Page 22911 A battalion commander, for example, was quoted as saying "Saddam knows
where we are and we know where he is. We will move a lot now to keep him off
guard."12 In these sentences, "he" and "him" appear to refer to Saddam Hussein.

Page 242THE CRISIS AS A CHESS GAME In this metaphor, the players (George Bush and
the coalition, Saddam Hussein and his followers), moved pawns around and
countered one another in something very similar to a game of chess. Saddam ...

Page 243Saddam and his cohorts are, so to speak, cancers that have to be cut out so the
patient, the Middle East, can be cured. It helps to dehumanize an enemy, so you
don't feel normal emotions about the death of human beings. Saddam and the ...